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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>(I know that I have already posted a thread similar to this one, but I am just asking for more advice)</p>

<p>What are my Chances at:
Cal Poly
UCLA (reach)
UCSD
UCI
UCD
UCSB</p>

<p>Would like to major in COMPUTER SCIENCE / ENGINEERING</p>

<p>Stats:
Junior
White
Californian
Male
SAT:1870 (720M, 530V, 620W)
SAT IIs: French 760, Math IIc 700
GPA:4.0 (W)</p>

<p>Curriculum (Grades):
9th- Spanish 2(A/A), Biology(B/B), English(A/A), Drama(A/A), Geometry(A/A)
10th- Spanish 3(A/A), Chemistry(B/A), English(B/A), AP World History(A/A), Algebra 2(B/B)
11th-AP French(A/A), Physics(A/A), Honors English(B/B), AP US History(B/B), Trig/Pre-Calc(A/A), Health(A)
12th- WILL BE-AP Stats, AP Calc AB, AP Physics, English, Economics, 3-D Media Design</p>

<p>ECs:
School tennis team (9,10,11)
Boy Scouts (9,10,11)
Club FISH (9,10,11)
Tutor (9,10,11)
Club TAP (9,10,11)
150+ C.S. hours (9,10,11)
Church Youth Group (9,10, 11)
Academic Decatholon (9,10,11)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP World-3
AP French-5
AP US- hopefully 4
AP French Lit- hopefully 5</p>

<p>College Classes:
Intro to Comp. Sci (11)
Web Site Development (11)
C++/JAVA Programming (will be doing in 12)</p>

<p>Leadership:
Ping-Pong President at my school
Leader of my Boy Scout Troop</p>

<p>Awards:
Academic Decatholon Medals in Math and Essay
Academic Letter
Eagle Scout
California Scholarship Federation(CSF)
Hopefully AP Scholar (or the one where you pass a number of tests)</p>

<p>Is there any way I can become more competitive for my reach schools like UCLA and maybe UCSD?</p>

<p>THANKS IN ADVANCE!</p>

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<p>UCLA: reach
UCSD: slight reach (almost a match)
UCD/UCSB/UCI: match
CalPoly: not positive, maybe safe match?</p>

<p>It actually might be better...what is your UC GPA? (this is your GPA for all academic classes grades 10 & 11). If your UC GPA happens to be around 4.2 or so, than your chances will be:</p>

<p>UCLA: slight reach:
UCSD: match
UCD / UCSB / UCI: safe match
Cal Poly: safety</p>

<p>You asked how to improve your chances at UCLA. The best things I can tell you are to get your grades up as much as you can & retake the SAT for a higher scores. Your EC's are more than acceptable to get into UCLA.</p>

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<p>my UC GPA is 4.0 and sorry for not writing that in the first message. I go to a really competitive public schools (last year 14 students went to Ives, 20 went to UCLA, 20 went to USC, and another 30 went to good schools (out of a class of 300 students)....would that help my acception to UCSD?)</p>

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<p>No, that won't help. Actually, the more competitive the school the worse off you are at most State schools. They want top 10%. It's well know kids at top privates get into ivies and get rejected by top states.</p>

<p>I would disagree that with your SATs, even a mid level UC is a safety. Your chances will go way up if you can break 2000. I would really work on that.</p>

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<p>i am pretty sure i am in the top 10% but my school does not rank. should i bring up my gpa for uci or should i focus more on sat and sat 2s. and if i do not do varsity tennis next spring, will it affect my admission (i dont think i will have space in my schedule for it)?</p>

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<p>For my AP Stat class, we have to do a survey project and do an SRS and our SRS shows a lot of people with about your stats getting into UCs by the dozen ;)</p>

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<p>awesome! which UCs?</p>

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<p>huh???????</p>

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<p>Well, we only asked about UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine but a lot of people got in and not all of them could have been top 10% because that would be only 14 kids...plus we don't rank...</p>

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<p>

That's the kicker, right there. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>what do you mean that's the kicker? do u mean that there was some bias involved in these statistics made by bluephish?</p>

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<p>I think he means a lot of people get into UC Irvine and it's "easy", which is true. However, a lot of people got into UCLA and UC Berkeley too. 43% of the people in our survey who answered all the questions were accepted into UCLA and/or UC Berkeley and our survey was a large majority students in the senior class so it's likely that the true proportion is near 40%.</p>

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<p>I think berkeley's acceptance rate is around 23%. Your high school doesn't represent all applicants.</p>

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<p>that's true but I'm saying he has a chance of getting into a UC and not just Irinve :)</p>

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<p>your sample is biased to area, socio-economic status, etc. You cannot extrapolate that data outside of your school.
PLUS; its a survey. I would not rely on that for fact.</p>

<p>I think you have an OK chance. Berkeley is especially obsessive about academics, so bring up the SAT score, and you'll have a pretty good shot. </p>

<p>Bring up the verbal! Colleges want to know you can write very well; this mainly goes for privates, but is also a factor for public. That verbal score....is painful. :(</p>

<p>And LA was extremely selective 2 years ago (about 10%) while Cal was around 21%. Cal is much more academically oriented admissions, so I'd say that you have a better chance at LA.</p>

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<p>if i do not do varsity tennis next spring will it affect my admission ( i dont think i will have space in my schedule)?</p>

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<p>also what could my hook be from my resume? eagle scout?</p>

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<p>Berkeley is out of your reach with that SAT score. Don't worry so much about your ECs...and no eagle scout isn't a hook.</p>

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<p>yeah i know berk is out of reach. is there anything at this point that i can do to increase my chances at mid tier UCs other than solid essays?</p>

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<p>This is a REALLY confusing thread!
Raise the SAT I and you'll havd a good chance at UCSD.
You should have no problem getting into UC Irvine.
UCSB would be a good match for you.</p>